The changing face of corpus linguistics

Sue BLACKWELL: The corpus-user's chorus Antoinette RENOUF and Andrew KEHOE: Introduction 1. Corpus creation Stefan DOLLINGER: Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario English Clemens FRITZ: Favoring Americanisms? vs. before and in Early English in Australia: A corpus-based approach Ian LANCASHIRE: Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English Manfred MARKUS: EFL dictionaries, grammars and language guides from 1700 to 1850: testing a new corpus on points of spokenness Antonio Miranda GARCIA, Javier Calle MARTIN, David Moreno OLALLA and Gustavo Munoz GONZALEZ: The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the light of the Old English Concordancer 2. Diachronic Corpus Study - from past to present Maurizio GOTTI: Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspective Anneli MEURMAN-SOLIN and PAIVI PAHTA: Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspective Caren auf dem KELLE: Changes in textual structures of book advertisements in the ZEN Corpus Marianne HUNDT: "Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicago for $1.50" - The mediopassive in American 20th-century advertising language Geoffrey LEECH and Nicholas SMITH: Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English 3. Synchronic Corpus Study - present-day Mats DEUTSCHMANN: Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National Corpus Goran KJELLMER: How recent is recent? On overcoming interpretational difficulties Ute ROMER: Looking at looking: Functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and 'school' English Gabriel OZON: Ditransitives, the Given Before New principle, and textual retrievability: a corpus-based study using ICECUP Anna-Brita STENSTROM: The Spanish pragmatic marker pues and its English equivalents 4. The Web as a Corpus Barry MORLEY: WebCorp: A tool for online linguistic information retrieval and analysis Andrew KEHOE: Diachronic linguistic analysis on the web with WebCorp Josef SCHMIED: New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCount Cedrick FAIRON and John V. SINGLER: I'm like, "Hey, it works!": Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers 5. Corpus Linguistics and Grammatical Theory Joybrato MUKHERJEE: Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars Christian MAIR: Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corpora Michaela MAHLBERG: but it will take time...points of view on a lexical grammar of English 6. Grammar Discussion Panel Jan AARTS: Corpus linguistics, grammar and theory: Report on a panel discussion at the 24th ICAME conference